Juanita Broaddrick said this week that it was “painful” to see
her 1999 allegations against former President Bill Clinton used
by Donald Trump in a recent political advertisement.

In a brief phone interview with Business Insider earlier this
week, the retired Arkansas nurse said the Trump campaign did not
reach out to her before using audio from her
decades-old Dateline NBC appearance in an Instagram ad
that portrayed Clinton as an abuser of women.

In that television appearance, Broaddrick accused Clinton of
raping her in 1978. The former president, through a lawyer, has
long ago denied her allegations.

“I didn’t know my voice was going to be in that campaign thing
that he put out,” Broaddrick said, adding that she’s “never had
any contact” with the Trump campaign. “I wasn’t even aware
of it. I was so surprised.”

“It was a little painful at first,” she continued. “To take the
most horrible part of my interview and the most horrible part of
it and put it in a campaign slogan, or whatever it was, it was
difficult, but I’m OK with it now.”

Broaddrick, who said she plans on voting for Trump, said she
“just wish[ed] someone” had contacted her so she wouldn’t have
been blindsided by the ad.

A representative for the Trump campaign did not respond to a
request for comment.

Broaddrick, who told Business Insider she is “not politically
involved,” has made waves in the 2016 cycle. Earlier this
year, she took to Twitter to resurface her
allegations.

Clinton was asked by a reporter about the tweet while on
the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton, his wife and the
presumptive Democratic nominee, but declined to respond.

Since defeating his Republican primary opponents, Trump has
repeatedly
attacked the former president for his record with woman and
called Hillary an “enabler.” Hillary has said she will not
respond to such personal attacks from Trump.